Went and edited my past posts for a week so they'd crosspost to LJ

[conuly]

Hurrah!

Finn's groomer visit is Monday. I need to call tomorrow and double check that it's still okay to bring his chewyrope and also if I can, as I usually do, bring Moonpie to get her nails clipped.

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Interesting Laundry Facts and Trivia

Missouri Penguins Enjoy 'Morning Of Fine Art' At Local Museum (Sure, take the penguins on a field trip. I notice nobody's taking the zoo lions on trips, or the zoo mice, even! Rank bigotry. The penguins only get to go on outings because the public loves them.)

How One Outsider Artist Reclaimed Her Drab Indoor World

When people move their hands and arms while using their voices, listeners are able to hear it. Even without seeing the messenger, we can pick up each other’s body language. (Very small study. I wonder if results can be replicated a. at all and b. for speakers of other languages, in other cultures.)

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

Washington Post's depictions of autism shift from 'cause and cure' to acceptance

The medieval engineering strokes of genius that led to the building of Old London Bridge

Ancient Leather ‘Mouse’ Highlights the Romans’ Sense of Humor

Apocalypse Meow: How a Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Tennessee

I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist

The Christian porn addiction industry is selling a lucrative, dangerous idea.

Sears’ Headquarters Was Supposed to Turn a Sleepy Suburb Into a Boomtown. It Never Happened.

When a spinning toy meets hydrodynamics: Point-of-care technology is set in motion

How big unions smooth the way for Amazon worker protests

The Surprising Backstory of Victory Gardens

Warren Harding Tried to Return America to ‘Normalcy’ After WWI and the 1918 Pandemic. It Failed.

My Great-Grandfather’s Letters From Camp Funston Show the Origins of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in Real Time

How the 1896 Bombay Plague Changed Mumbai Forever

I Survived Prison During The AIDS Epidemic. Here’s What It Taught Me About Coronavirus

'A Lot To Be Hopeful For': Crisis Seen As Historic, Not Another Great Depression

Comments

[jtthomas]

...it just occurred to me that if any future historians look at your blog to get a sense of this year's timeline, they are going to be SO confused by your dating system, and that DELIGHTS me.

[conuly]

Eh, right now I'm only a couple of days advanced.

[jtthomas]

For all we know, two days from now could be a major change (notable people infected, perhaps?). It still makes me giggle.

[conuly]

I better remember to screen these comments then.

[conuly]

(And actually I think the actual date is saved uh somewhere so....)

[nodrog]

A fellow needs his chewyrope!

[conuly]

Finn sure does. He hates being caged up without humans snuggling him.

Re: Caged Snuggle

[nodrog]

Well, y’ know, the same could be said for a good many people also!

(frozen) Re: Covid-19 Vaccination Conspiracies - 'The Atlantic'

[nodrog]

Neater, more elegant, more polite to simply post a link:

https://nodrog.dreamwidth.org/2674739.html

Especially when it involves quotes.

Re: Teenage Conspiracy Theorist

[nodrog]

The word “religion” appears never in that article - and yet, the whole article is describing organized religion exactly - its foundations, its mentality, its appeal to the human mind.

If you hadn’t noticed, look at the article again with that concept in mind - and you’ll see it plainly.